Not really. But im having a lot of fun in this thread.This. Everybody's had a lot of fun, but does anybody *really* see a post WW1 POD that results in France dismantling Germany?
Yeah thats kinda problematic. I tried to avert it by having 'Le Chef' prey on the fear of war by saying he'll ensure no nation will ever be able to threaten France again.Not that I think France can't fight but with 1.5 million soldier dead and another 4 million wounded in WWI nobody is in the mood for war.
It's like if today america lost like 12 870 000 soldiers.
I don't know if a similar ideology is even possible. A lot of Nazi policy was derived from the activities of the German Empire in their African colonies, whereas France was one of the most tolerant out of those empires, so they wouldn't have any predetermined policies in the colonies being used in Europe itself. In addition, when you have a large colonial empire, being Nazi really won't work. Expect mass rebellion in the colonies, covert support from Britain, and in general, heavy resistance.By "Nazi" France I mean a state governed by a similar ideology of race-as-biology, agrarian imperialism, military expansionism and the Fuhrer principle. Let's say that somehow a French answer to National Socialism takes control in the 1932 elections and the French Fuhrer, we'll call him Adolphe Blanc, dismantles French democracy more or less at the same pace and scale that Hitler did in OTL.
So, Nazis being Nazis, what does Blanc want when he starts sending the chars across the border? There aren't that many French(-speaking) people beyond the borders of France, not on the scale of the ethnic Germans outside Weimar at any rate, and "Belgium and parts of Switzerland, plus the Rhineland" isn't exactly grand, Hitler-scale megalomania. So what could serve as an analogue to the Nazi "Ein volk, Ein Reich" schemes here? Ancient Celtic domains? Anywhere the French Revolution & Empire laid down the flag?
It was not really an Austrian colony and they showed no interest in keeping it. As for France in Cisjordan and Transjordan, keep in mind that it was the BRITISH who gave them Greater Syria after WWI, as well as Togo, Most of Kamerun, and generally helped the French out
Another point is that 20th century France didn't have the rural overpopulation needed to build support for Nazi-style genocidal agrarian expansionism.I don't think Nazi France is all that feasible. Germany can very easily cripple France even if it can't sustain the Brest-Litovsk borders in a WWI scenario, to a point where France won't be able to initiate a general European revenge war as a counter. And certainly not able to sustain one if it does do this.
Uniform of paramilitary organisation under Adolphe Blanc and his party (still nedd a name for it), 1937.
That's what I was thinking too, but it sound too bland, not nazi-like enough.
And about the party, anyone ? Parti National-Socialiste des Travailleurs Français (NSTF) would be the easiest option, but too much nazi-like this time.
What would be the policy of "Nazi France" towards the Catholic Church? Might it do away with the gains made since the Dreyfus affair?
How about Front de Fer? (du? my French is non-existent, sorry)
Also, what would a "Nazi" France do with regards to say, Imperial Japan?